---
title: "09.06.06"
date: 2006-09-06
url: https://learningischange.com/2006/09/06/090606/
author: Ben Wilkoff
categories: ["Lesson Plans", "Uncategorized"]
tags: []
---

# 09.06.06

ELT:

- Write-Ons:  Why do you think that people act differently online then they do in real life?
- How can we create a safe environment for everyone on our blogs?
- What are the inherent risks of posting to a blog once a week?

- Explore the [Discovery Blogging Rules websites](http://discovery0607.wikispaces.com/Discovery+Blogging+Rules) looking for the following:  Creating a blogging environment without fear (of insult, of reprisal, of dishonesty).
- Creating a scholastic blogging environment.
- Creating a blogging environment based upon protection (of personal information, of identity, of unique thoughts).
- Creating a creative, non-restrictive, tolerant, and sensitive blogging environment.

- Write down aprox. 5 Blogging rules in your category that you think should be a part of the Discovery Blogging Rules.

Core 1+3:

- Write-On: What do grades mean to you?
- Take a look at your writing assessments:  Grade according to the six-trait rubric in your planner.
- Compare your six-trait grades with mine.
- Writing Question: If there is a difference, why do you think that we assessed the same paper differently?
- Take one of the traits that we both think could be an area for improvement (Lower than your other scores or 3.5 and below). Writing Question: Why did you struggle (at least comparatively) with that particular aspect of writing for this piece?
- How do you believe you will approach your writing differently

Core 2:

- Write-On: Every tradition presents a dichotomous choice: to change or not to change. Which traditions are beneficial and should stay the same, and which are detrimental and should be changed.
- Read [The Lottery by Shirley Jackson](http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lotry.html)  Answer questions on theme and change (from handout).
- Discuss the nature of this tradition, change, and dichotomous choice.

- On the back of the handout, answer the following question:  How can you change/question tradition when everyone else seems to buy into it?

Core 4:

- Write-On: What is the most difficult dichotomous choice (only two options) you have had to make in your life?
- Read [The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost](http://www.bartleby.com/119/1.html)  Answer questions on theme and change (from handout).
- Discuss poetry analysis, dichotomous choice, and change.

- On the back of the handout, write a [parallel poem](http://discovery0607.wikispaces.com/Wilkoff+Teaching+Language#Parallel) about a major dichotomous change in your life.